Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Yale University
370 ESC
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06520
U.S.A.
thomas.near@yale.edu
Telephone: (203) 432-3002
Education
Ph.D. University of Illinois, 2000 (Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution)
M.S. Northern Illinois University, 1995 (Biological Sciences)
B.S. Northern Illinois University, 1993 (Biological Sciences)
B.A. Northern Illinois University, 1993 (History)
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 2011-present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 2006-June 2011
- Assistant Curator, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Peabody Museum of Natural History
- Yale University, New Haven, CT, August 2006-present
- Fellow of Saybrook College
- Yale University, New Haven, CT, October 2006-present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville, August 2003-June 2006
- Phylogenetics Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Evolution and Ecology
- University of California, Davis, July 2002-July 2003
- Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Fellow
- University of California, Davis, July 2000-July 2002
Academic Awards
- 2009, Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Golden Anniversary Alumni Award.
- 2000, 1997 Ranked as Outstanding Teaching Assistant in student evaluations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- 1999 H. H. Ross Memorial Fund Citation.
- 1997 ASIH Storer Award in Ichthyology for outstanding student poster presentation. American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists meeting, Seattle, Washington, 1997.
- 1995 Outstanding Student Presentation Award. American Society of Parasitologists meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1995.